{"id":30295,"date":"2023-01-20T11:51:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T11:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/liberia-the-kpokolo-kingpin-how-fda-created-a-serial-illegal-logger"},"modified":"2023-01-20T14:49:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T14:49:27","slug":"liberia-the-kpokolo-kingpin-how-fda-created-a-serial-illegal-logger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/liberia-the-kpokolo-kingpin-how-fda-created-a-serial-illegal-logger","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: The \u2018Kpokolo\u2019 Kingpin: How FDA Created A Serial Illegal Logger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Liberia. <\/strong><\/span>On one sunny day in Karnwee late last year, forest rangers and police officers seized a truck with 80 pieces of boxlike timber, ending an hourlong chase all the way from Bahn, where the woods had been harvested.<\/p>\n

Emmanuel Gongor, a middle-height man, arrived on the scene shortly on a motorcycle taxi, appearing shocked. This was not the first time Gongor had transported block wood, commonly called \u201cKpokolo\u201d in the logging industry. For years he passed checkpoints without any problems. Sometimes he sold the wood to other companies or individuals in Liberia. Other times, he exported them.<\/p>\n

Things had suddenly changed. Gongor learned that the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) had banned Kpokolo, derived from the sound the wood makes when it falls or \u201cthick and heavy\u201d in the Kpelle language. His woods were dumped by a roadside.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been so committed, but if we cannot understand, we will seek the legal process by taking the FDA to the circuit court,\u201d a furious Gongor told The DayLight in a phone interview days after the incident. He expected to get US$7,000 from the consignment and settle all of his holiday expenses.<\/p>\n

Gongor does not have a logging contract and his timber surpass the dimension defined in the Chainsaw Milling Regulation. His wood are between five and 10 inches thick, up to five times the required measurement of two inches. In photos posted to Gongor\u2019s Facebook page, several men can be seen trying to lift the timber.<\/p>\n

But interviews and documents show that the FDA has been aware of Gongor\u2019s illegal logging activities for half of a decade. In fact, the agency has unlawfully received fees from him. Some of his waybills seen by The DayLight amounted to over US$1,500.<\/p>\n

Those payments sanctioned the 48-year-old to rip off forests from central Nimba to the Cote d\u2019Ivoire border. Nimba lost 315,000 hectares of tree cover between 2001 and 2021. That makes it second only to Bong County (363,000 hectares), according to Global Forest Watch, a tool that monitors the state of forests across the world.<\/p>\n

\u2018Emmanuel, The Investor\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n

Gongor was an accomplished miner. He panned and sieved for gold on a number of goldfields in Gbarpolu, Grand Kru and Grand Gedeh.<\/p>\n

He started up in the logging industry in 2017 as a chainsaw miller, pit-sawyers or plank producer. Soon he saw that he could make more money from harvesting kpokolo.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlock wood is preferable because for normal sawing at times, we take 500 pieces of timber to be a truckload, but for block wood, some are just 150-200 pieces,\u201d Gongor explained. \u201cFor the past six years now, I have been on that operation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gongor was hired by a Turkish-owned firm called Tropical Wood Group of Companies, which obtained a one-year permit from the FDA to buy and sell. The permit was issued by Darlington Tuargben, the FDA Managing Director at the time. The legality verification department (LVD), a unit of the FDA that manages its log-tracking system called the chain of custody, said it has no record of the company. Efforts to contact Abdulla Aklan, the company\u2019s owner, were not successful. Tuargben did not respond to queries.<\/p>\n

Gongor conquered the kpokolo black market. He broke out with his employer and established Tropical Wood Group of Investment. Though he is yet to register it as a legal entity, he continues his criminal deals with the new firm.<\/p>\n

His network spans four of the nine districts in Nimba: Zoe-Gbao, Zoe-Geh, Bu-Yao and Gbelay-Geh in the central and eastern regions of the county. He boasts of a workforce of 25 people and a host of villagers and disadvantaged youth or \u201czogoes.\u201d They do everything from locating forested communities to finding trees and from negotiating with local landowners, to harvesting, hauling and transporting. With 30 chainsaws, they have built wooden bridges, and town halls and have repaired schools and clinics in forested towns and villages.<\/p>\n

Videos recorded by Gongor show him taking stock of trees he had negotiated with villagers to harvest in Tahnplay, and celebrating the completion of projects. \u201cWe finally completed the bridge connecting Kanhplay to Sehyi Town in Gbelay-Geh Statutory District,\u201d Gongor can be heard saying in one video. \u201cTogether with the youth, elders, and chiefs, we were able to complete the first phase of operation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Townspeople in the areas Gongor works revere him. His name goes beyond the reach of logging companies in that region, many of whom have failed to fulfill their social agreements with communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe call him Emmanuel The Investor,\u201dArkey Vasiee, town chief of Zortapa. In March last year, James Zuorpeawon, Gbehlay-Geh\u2019s development superintendent, issued him a permit to operate in the area. It authorizes Gongor to present the document \u201cfor awareness and protection during his operation within the district.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other kpokolo loggers across the country also respect Gongor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis place is small for him, he can\u2019t even come here again,\u201d said a plank producer from Gompa Wood Field in Ganta, who preferred not to be named. Gongor had milled planks there prior to venturing into kpokolo.<\/p>\n

\u201cGongor is one of the most skillful kpokolo operators,\u201d said James Kelley, a kpokolo logger in Gbaryama in Gbarpolu\u2019s Bopolu District. Kelley said he had worked with him in Kinjor, Grand Cape Mount County.<\/p>\n

Gongor does not depend on his fame\u2014or notoriety\u2014to run his business. He advertises on Facebook. \u201c[If you are] interested in this Iroko table, you can WhatsApp me on this number,\u201d a November 27, 2020 post reads, featuring a flat piece of log on a stick like a table. \u201cIf anyone is interested in buying teak wood, just contact me on my contact number,\u201d reads a March 10, 2021 post. Both Iroko and teak logs are durable woods used for outdoor purposes. His accounts also showcase selfie pictures of him with men loading giant-sized block wood onto trucks.<\/p>\n

But Gongor would not have been this successful without the FDA. Receipts of their transactions show he has paid the FDA tens of thousands of United States Dollars in waybill, fees imposed on transported timber. One September 2017 receipt shows that he paid the FDA L$18,000 for 300 pieces of kpokolo. Another in May last year reveals he paid US$424 for 121 pieces.<\/p>\n

One document shows Gongor\u2019s invoice to a firm in Hong Kong to export 125 cubic meters of sawn timber with a height and width of 50 centimeters (approximately 20 inches) and length of seven feet. He had a deal to export timber from the Freeport of Monrovia to the Port of Chittagong in Bangladesh, according to one invoice.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe FDA agents are always informed when we are going to bring wood from the bush,\u201d Gongor told The DayLight.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe make more money for forestry. Our own percentage to the FDA is different from the normal [pit-sawing].\u201d He was speaking in reference to the US$0.60 toll on a plank compared to US$2 on kpokolo, according to waybills FDA issued him, seen by The DayLight.<\/p>\n

The fees the FDA received from Gongor are illegal in a number of ways. First, the payments he has made to the FDA do not go to the Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA), the company\u2019s tax-payments record shows. In addition to possessing no contract, the villages where he operates do not have any legal rights to engage in logging deals. And the timber he harvests or exports does not pass through the legal channel, as mandated in the National Forestry Reform Law and the Regulation on Establishing a Chain of Custody System.<\/p>\n

Gongor\u2019s kpokolo waybills have also shined a light on FDA\u2019s shady plank tolls system. Fees the agency collects from planks dealers are not made public as required by forestry\u2019s legal frameworks, including Liberia\u2019s Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) with the European Union. They are neither paid to the LRA nor captured in the reports of the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI). The FDA has retained these fees for years, a breach of the financial provision of the reform law.<\/p>\n

FrontPage Africa reported in 2020 that the Klay checkpoint in Bomi collected over L$500,000 in just one month. It said that there was a wrangle within the FDA over the management of the funds, adding that the fees went into a mobile money account belonging to Edward Kamara, FDA\u2019s forest product marketing manager. Kamara coordinates fees collected at checkpoints countrywide.<\/p>\n

Ironically, while the FDA secretly collects fees from Gongor, it has asked the public to assist it to combat illegal logging activities. The FDA said in a release last November that it had intercepted four container trucks trafficking timber from western Liberia. That statement followed a similar one three months earlier after rangers in Bomi and Gbarpolu arrested three trucks with logs illegally harvested.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the Monrovia City Court issued an arrest warrant for a former police commander, an ex-envoy and eight people in the Bomi-Gbarpolu incident. The FDA is seeking court orders in the counties to auction the logs, the first such step since the formulation of Regulation on Confiscated Logs, Timber and Timber Products.<\/p>\n

\u2018I am over hurt\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n

Gongor feels betrayed in all of this, believing he is a victim rather than the villain he actually is. For the last six years, the FDA has sanctioned his operations and accepted his payments like a typical chainsaw miller. He finds nothing wrong with producing Kpokolo.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would have been good for the FDA to formally inform those involved in the business before ordering us to stop the harvest and sale of block wood in the country,\u201d Gongor said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am over hurt. We have been issued hundreds of waybills. We always pay a huge sum of money to these guys,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

In December, nearly a month after his consignment of timber was seized, Gongor transported them to Ganta. They were again seized and are being kept at the Gompa Wood Field.<\/p>\n

The FDA is yet to take the required legal actions to confiscate Gongor\u2019s timber. Under the confiscated timber regulation, the FDA is mandated to petition the circuit court in Sanniquellie to auction the wood. Both Arthur Gweh, the commander of Nimba County police detachment in Bahn, and Emmanuel Gbeh, the FDA ranger who arrested the wood, declined to comment.<\/p>\n

By law, Gongor should face a lawsuit for his illicit activities, and if convicted he could pay a fine, serve a prison term, or both. It is a crime for a non-contract holder to harvest timber, punishable under the Penal Code as economic sabotage.<\/p>\n

The FDA\u2019s Managing Director Mike Doryen did not respond to emailed queries.<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s Note: This is the first of a two-part report on the operations of an infamous illegal logger, based in Nimba County. It is also a part a broader series on a criminal logging activity commonly called \u201cKpokolo.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

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